Dumping-car.



PATENTED MAR. v, 1905. W. R. GLIFPE. DUMPING GAR. APPLICATION I'ILED NOV2 1904 ignated at 15.

No. 78&,105.

Ten STATES Patented March '7, 1905.

WALTER R. OLIFFE, OF HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 784,105, dated March'7, 1905.

Application filed Iovember Z, 1904. Serial No. 231,125.

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Be it known that I, W ALTER R. CLIFFE, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Harrisburg, in the county of Danphin, Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented cer.

tain new and useful Improvements in Dumping-Cars, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in thatclass of dumping-cars shown in United'States Patent No. 596,478, grantedJanuary 4, 1898, to Cashin and Shaffer, and which cars are adapted todischarge from one side of the track.

The object of my invention is to perfect a dumping-car of this characterwhich can easily be operated by means of a hand-lever at the end of thecar.

With this object in view my invention consists in the peculiarconstruction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter moreparticularly described, and then definitely set forth by the claims atthe end thereof.

ln the drawings which accompany and form part of this application,Figure l is an end elevation of a box-car having my improvement appliedthereto, and Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same, with the box in thedumping position.

Referring now to the details of the aforesaid drawings by numerals: 1.,2, and 3 represent the usual or any desired form of timhers or sills,the timber or sill 2 being connected with the arch-bar 5 of the truckand the timber .1 being pivoted to the timber .2, as indicated at 7. Thecar-box is supported on the timber or longitudinal sill l and may herocked with said timber on the pivot 7 whenever it is desired to dumpthe car. The end of the car-hex is designated by the numeral 9, and atthe left-hand side of the same there is located the door 11, which ineffect forms the side of the box when the car-box is in the normalposition. This door is rigidly con nected to an arm or lever 13, whichis pivoted directly to the end of the car-box, as des- A bell-cranklever 17 is also pivoted on the end of the car-box and has one of itsarms, 19, coacting with the arm or lever .13, and its other arm, 21, isconnected with a link or connecting rod 23, which in turn is pivoted toa post or standard 2.5, preferably supported by the truck. It will ofcourse be understood that all of the parts so far described areduplicated on the opposite end of the truck in order that the parts maybe moved simultaneously, and it may also be stated that all of the partsso far described are old and well-known and are shown in the aforesaidPatent No. 596, t78, and therefore need no further description. coursebe changed as occasion may require.

In order that the car-box 9 may be more easily tilted, I employ thefollowing mechanism: 1 connect a hand-lever 30, which is pivoted at 32to the lever-bracket 34, and to this hand-lever 30 is pivoted aconnecting-bar 36, which is connected to a toggle formed of the two armsor levers 38 and 89, pivoted to each other and to the connecting-bar at40. One arm or lever 38, of the toggle is connected pivotally with thecar-box, as indicated at 4:2, and the other arm or lever, 39, of thetoggle is likewise connected to the lower hinge connection 44. When inthe normal or loaded position, the lever or handle 30 is substantiallyupright, and a link 4:6 is pivoted to the end of the car-box and is sopivoted that it is capable of engaging the upper end of the lever orhandle 30 and looking it in the normal position, as indicated at Fig.'1.

From the foregoing and the accompanying drawings it will be clear thatwhenever it is desired to tilt the car on its pivot 7, so as to dump ordischarge the load, it is merely necessary to disenga'igi-i or free thelever or handle 30 by moving the link 46 on its pivot, when the operatormay move the lever to the right, as shown in the drawings, and thismovement, acting through the connecting-rod 2,6, draws on the centralpivot of the toggle so as to move it into the position shown in Fig. 2.This movement of the toggle also draws. the pivot 42, and thus tilts thecar-box on its pivot 7. In view of the fact that the door 11 is pivotedto the car-box and at the same time is connected, hymeans of thehell-crank lever 17, with the stationary or immovable standard or post25, the movement of the car-box has the effect of opening the door,although, as a mat- They may of ter of fact, very little movement isgiven to able door closing said opening, arms pivoted the door 11. Itwill of course be manifest that when it is desired to move the car-boxback to its original position after it has been tilted to discharge itscontents it is merely necessary to move the lever or handle back to itsvertical position, when it will, through the connecting-rod 36 andtoggle, push the car-box up into its normal horizontal position, thedoor at the same time moving into the closed position.

I of course do not limit my invention to the exact construction shown,as changes may be made as may be found necessary, and the scope of theinvention is therefore set forth by the appended claims.

hat I claim as new is l. The combination in acar of the class described,of a tilting car-box having a discharge-opening, a movable door closingsaid opening, arms pivoted to the car-box and con- .nected with saiddoor, a bell-crank lever connected to the car-box and coacting with thedoor, whereby the movement of the car-box opens the door, a hand-leversuitably supported, and pivoted connections between said hand-lever andthe car-box, whereby the movement of the hand-lever tilts the car-box todump the same and simultaneously opens the door, substantially asdescribed.

2. In a car of the class described, a tilting car-box having adischarge-opening, a movto the car-box and connected to the door, and aboll-crank lever connected to the car-box and coacting with the door,where by the movement of the car-box opens the door, in com binationwith a hand-lever suitably supported, and a toggle connected with thecar-box, said hand-lever and toggle being connected, whereby the singlemovement of the hand-lever tilts the car and opens the door,substantiall y as described.

3. In a car of the class described, a tilting car-box having adischarge-opening, a movable door closing said opening, arms pivoted tothe car-box and connected to the door, and a bell-crank lever connectedto the car-box and coacting with the door, whereby the movement of thecar-box opens the door, in combination with a hand-lever suitablysupported, and a toggle connected with the car-box, and means forholding said hand-lever in its normal position, said hand-lever andtoggle being connected, whereby the single movement of the hand-levertilts the car and opens the door, substantially as described.

Signed by me at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, this 28th day of October, 190

WALTER R. CLIFFE.

\Vitnesses:

PHILIP T. MEREDITH, W. iVYAN'r.

